War
Memorial Hospital 1922
Marlow Hill
- Picture from the SWOP
website
- Reference number RHW : 01340
The
hospital in Priory Road
Was
too
small for its heavy load
And
so a
new site then was found
To
nurse
the needs of all around
And,
just
like all those years before,
Campaigners
knocked upon your door
And
hoped
that you would help to buy,
In
memory
of those who died,
A
bigger,
better, greater one
For
all
those soldier's growing sons.
And
so they
formed campaigning groups,
Something
fitting for our troops
With
Peace
and Skull girls at the fore,
-
All ready for another war.
Nellie
Skull (nee Peace), Minnie Clarke (nee Peace) and May Watkins (nee
Skull) all helped to raise money for the new hospital. Viscount Wendover (Earl Carrington's son), Donald
Clarke, William Frederick Gibbs, Arthur G.Thurlow and Charles Robert Watkins where all killed in the First World War.
In the Second World War James Olliff Griffitts lost two grandsons, Maud Bird (nee Skull), lost her son Maurice Bird, and her
son-in-law, Douglas Adamson. Ian Fleck, the
son of Douglas and Mabel Fleck (nee Skull), was a POW, he escaped, was captured by
the
Gestapo but survived.
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